Akṣaya Tṛtīyā
Sunday, 1 May 1881
From the pañchāṅga
By local reckoning this is kept on Saturday, 30 April or Sunday, 1 May across the world, the date above is for your location.
Observed on the day Tṛtīyā prevails at midday; some traditions instead take the sunrise tithi, which can fall a day apart in some years.
How it is observed
No fast: the “imperishable third” is kept by beginning auspicious things, giving in charity (dāna), and worshipping Viṣṇu and Lakṣmī; whatever is begun or given today is said never to diminish.
Deities of the Day
Sunday, 1 May 1881 · Conjunction of Moon Consciousness & Sun Action
Goddess Gaurī
Mātā Gaurī (Pārvatī) radiates gentle compassion, inner steadfastness, marital harmony, and pure devotion.
ॐ गौर्यै नमः
oṁ gauryai namaḥBhagavān Sūrya Nārāyaṇa
Sunday is ruled by the Sun, governing inner vitality, truth, leadership, vitality, and soul realization.
ॐ घृणिः सूर्याय नमः
oṁ ghṛṇiḥ sūryāya namaḥSunday, 1 May, in the old reckoning
- Cosmic Time
अद्य · श्वेतवराह कल्पे · वैवस्वत मन्वन्तरे · कलियुगे प्रथम पादे
adya · śveta-varāha kalpe · vaivasvata manvantare · kali-yuge prathama pāde
- Calendrical Time
शालिवाहन शके १८०३ · वृष संवत्सरे · उत्तरायणे · ग्रीष्म ऋतौ
śālivāhana śake 1803 · Vṛṣa saṁvatsare · Uttarāyaṇe · Grīṣma ṛtau
- Astronomical Limb (Pañcāṅga) · पञ्चाङ्ग कालः
ज्येष्ठ मासे · शुक्ल पक्षे · तृतीया तिथौ · भानु वासरे · रोहिणी नक्षत्रे · अतिगण्ड योगे · गर करणे
Jyeṣṭha māse · Śukla pakṣe · Tṛtīyā tithau · Bhānu vāsare · Rohiṇī nakṣatre · Atigaṇḍa yoge · Gara karaṇe
- Sacred Locality
जम्बूद्वीपे · भारतवर्षे*
jambū-dvīpe · bhārata-varṣe (India)
*The locality lines, jambū-dvīpe bhārata-varṣe, your deśa and your kṣetra: name your continent, country, region, and town. India is shown by default; spoken aloud you'd substitute your own.
What you just read
The sankalpa is the opening declaration of any traditional Hindu observance. It places the moment in three nested frames, cosmic, calendrical, and astronomical, before any act, so the doer knows when and where they are standing in time.
Cosmic time doesn't change with where you read this. Śveta-varāha is the present kalpa (a day of Brahmā, ~4.32 billion years). Vaivasvata is the current manvantara within it. Kali-yuga prathama pāda places us in the first quarter of the dark age. These are the deepest layers of the Hindu reckoning of time, the same for someone in Bengaluru, Mumbai, Sydney, or San Francisco.
Calendrical time tracks the present year. The Śaka era counts from 78 CE; the named saṁvatsara is one of a sixty-year cycle of year-names (Prabhava, Vibhava... Akṣaya, then repeating). The ayana tells us which half of the solar year we're in: Uttarāyaṇa (sun moving north, January to July) or Dakṣiṇāyana (south, July to January). The ṛtu is the season.
Astronomical time is the most particular. The māsa, pakṣa, and tithi follow the moon; the vāra is the weekday; the nakṣatra is which of the 27 lunar mansions the moon currently sits in; the yoga is a sun-plus-moon arithmetic; the karaṇa is the half-tithi. These four: nakṣatra, yoga, tithi, karaṇa, together with the vāra are the literal "five limbs" of the word pañchāṅga.
The values shown above are computed for your local sunrise. The day "belongs to" whichever tithi (and nakṣatra and karaṇa) was prevailing at sunrise, even if those quantities change mid-morning, the day keeps its sunrise name until the next sunrise. This is the convention every printed panchang and every traditional sankalpa uses. A reader in Sydney sees their sunrise's reckoning; a reader in London sees theirs; both differ from each other by a few hours of the sky.
Why it is spoken every day. The sankalpa is the traditional opening of daily (nitya) observance, not reserved for festivals. Recited each morning, it re-anchors you in the exact moment you occupy in sacred time and dedicates the day’s actions with conscious intention (saṅkalpa means “resolve”). On an Ekadasi it is the same declaration that opens the fast, the day, the place, and the purpose, named before the vrata begins.
Celestial Coordinates & Muhūrtas
4:51 PM – 6:25 PM
12:07 PM – 1:42 PM
11:43 AM – 12:31 PM
Bearings indicate horizon degrees. Rāhu and Yamagaṇḍa are avoided for new auspicious beginnings; Abhijit is the midday victory window.
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